Upbound Unveils New Developer Tools to Elevate Cloud Customization

Upbound targets platform engineering teams building self-service cloud environments for developers.

Upbound Unveils New Developer Tools to Elevate Cloud Customization

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Greg Chase
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Upbound, the leader in universal cloud platforms, today announced significant advancements to its platform, targeting enterprises building self-service cloud environments for their developers and machine learning engineers. Based on open-source software Kubernetes and Crossplane, Upbound’s new enhancements simplify cloud service customization, providing flexibility to meet unique requirements and reducing barriers to cloud adoption. These capabilities address companies' needs to provide personalized cloud infrastructure while improving efficiency by eliminating problems with configuration drift.

“We have two primary objectives with this release: to help our customers realize their goal of creating a singular cloud experience for their end users and to make it easier for them to do so,” said Bassam Tabbara, CEO and Founder of Upbound. “Our vision is for a customer to be able to test their cloud platform in 10 minutes and deploy to production in a day.”

A Transformational Solution for Self-Service Cloud Platforms

Enterprises are increasingly investing in platform engineering to manage the complexities of modern cloud services, seeking solutions that drive productivity and cost efficiency. Upbound’s platform enables businesses to consolidate cloud service offerings into intuitive, self-service portals, allowing developers and AI teams to build with greater agility. These tools decrease dependency on engineering resources and unlock the potential for scalable revenue growth by delivering faster, more adaptable cloud solutions.

New Tools to Simplify Cloud Customization and Testing

Upbound’s latest release introduces essential tools that enhance platform engineering and accelerate the roll-out of cloud platforms:

VSCode Support: This aids in building complex cloud service compositions by improving developer productivity through code completion, schema validation, and linting with Crossplane providers.
Developer Control Planes: Lightweight, testing-focused control planes managed in the Upbound platform for real-time debugging and service validation, further accelerating deployment of cloud customizations.

These tools provide an intuitive project-based software development lifecycle (SDLC) for Crossplane compositions, making them easy to learn and build. This allows engineers to easily customize cloud infrastructure in a way that provides continuous reconciliation, speeding up both deployment and ongoing operations.

Enhanced Self-Service Capabilities

With the introduction of user portals and APIs for cloud resource provisioning, Upbound enhances end-user accessibility with self-service functionality. Platform engineers can now empower end-users such as developers and machine learning engineers to manage custom cloud resources on demand, speeding up provisioning from days to minutes and reducing administrative overhead.

Robust Security and Efficiency at Scale

Security remains at the forefront of Upbound’s offerings. The Upbound Official Packages program now includes security-enhanced packages with signed versions, distroless images, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), reflecting Upbound’s commitment to enterprise-grade security standards. Upbound has also released new core platform capabilities that increase the efficiency of serving thousands of end-users and cloud services, including a query API for viewing data across cloud services and a telemetry collector for improving observability of metrics and logs.

Free and Flexible Pricing Options

As part of this release, Upbound has introduced new, flexible pricing tiers: a free Individual Plan for solo users and a low-cost Team Plan for small-scale projects and pilots. These provide accessible entry points for platform engineers and their teams to experience the platform before scaling.

Building a Universal Cloud Platform

With these latest developments, Upbound aims to provide a cloud management platform that's flexible enough to meet enterprises' unique and evolving needs, with the core services needed for governance to ensure security, compliance, and cost control. Upbound’s comprehensive approach empowers companies to innovate freely, securely, and at a competitive pace—driving value for customers, investors, and the industry at large.

Availability

These new features have been released and are generally available in the Upbound platform. Sign up here for access today.

For more details on these advancements, visit Upbound's Blog.

About Upbound

Upbound is the leading provider of self-service cloud platforms based on control planes. With control planes like Crossplane, cloud engineers can create custom APIs unhindered by configuration drift. By utilizing the Upbound platform to host their control planes, platform engineers can provide the centralized control, governance, and stability they must meet while giving developers the freedom of self-service.

Upbound is the creator and maintainer of the popular open-source project Crossplane, a framework for building cloud-native control planes. The company is a Series B startup and has raised $69M in total funding. Upbound’s backers include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, Titanium Ventures and Intel Capital. For more information, visit upbound.io.

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